Optasense Provides Monitoring for Critical Water Pipelines Ras Al-Khair and Riyadh City Projects, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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OptaSense Provides Monitoring for Critical Water Pipelines Ras Al-Khair and Riyadh City Projects, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Project Overview With over 2 million square kilometres, Ras Al-Khair Supply Pipelines the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a vast Ras Al-Khair is the location of a Problem: country, almost nine times the size of the desalination project on the east cost of • Accidental damage to newly United Kingdom. Most of the land is arid Saudi Arabia. The plant supplies water to installed large pipeline systems by with no continuous flowing rivers, lakes or Riyadh, Al Majma’ah, Shaqraa, Al-Ghat, home, road and other construction other natural water reserves. To sustain Thadig, and Al Zulfi through a total of 914 activities the swiftly growing population of over km of pipeline. OptaSense began 66 million, a large portion of fresh water installation of Phase 1 of the project in Solution: needs to be generated by desalination. March 2019. • OptaSense Pipeline Monitoring System can quickly and accurately The government-owned Saline Water Riyadh City Feeder Pipelines identify and classify hazardous Conversion Corporation (SWCC) operates Three pipelines within Riyadh, amounting activity before damage occurs 31 desalination plants in 17 locations to 133 km are ensuring the transport of along the East and West coasts of Saudi water from the city reservoirs to terminal Value Delivered: Arabia. Through a pipeline network stations for the distribution to the Reduction of pipeline incidents that of more than 5,600 km, the treated consumer. OptaSense will install its latest could potentially impact the flow of water is transported into more than 46 distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) fresh drinking water to major cities governorates and cities throughout the system on all three critical feeder Kingdom. pipelines following the completion of the Ras Al-Khair Phase 1 installation. Advanced Monitoring Solution Added Benefit To address the customer's problem, OptaSense® engineers The aim of both projects is to contribute to the integrity of suggested the installation of the OptaSense Pipeline the water pipelines and thus secure an uninterrupted water Monitoring System (PMS) for third-party intrusion (TPI) supply to the Saudi consumer. For example, any potentially detection. The OptaSense PMS offers a variety of detector harmful construction activity near the pipeline will generate applications to monitor right of way and third-party an alert that can be addressed before any damage can interference, geohazards, theft, and critical infrastructure in occur. Further, the ability to automatically classify specific real time, from a single operating system. Offering third party events such as mechanical or manual digging will allow the interference monitoring and right of way detection, the client to minimize unwanted alerts while providing an OptaSense system can alert the pipeline operator of enhanced situational awareness of the right-of-way. With potentially hazardous activity occurring within the pipeline 80% of all pipeline leaks attributed to third-party intrusion, the corridor, such as digging, vehicle movement and other large ability to detect potentially harmful activities quickly and machinery, before contact with the pipe is made. accurately has never been greater.

Activities or events that occur along a pipeline produce ...... unique sounds and vibrations, which DFOS can detect. Using advanced processing, these unique acoustics are analyzed For more information, please contact your OptaSense to eliminate background noise and then converted into a representative or visit www.optasense.com/pipeline- high resolution visual. By applying advanced algorithms, monitoring. these sounds and vibrations are deciphered to create specific alarms for a given event or sequence of events— allowing the operator to monitor individual or interactive threats, where and how often they occur, whether they are time-dependent and their potential of becoming a major issue.

OptaSense has a strong track-record of providing TPI monitoring solutions in both urban and desert environments and is well-prepared for future expansion of these water pipeline projects due to the continuing growth of Riyadh and other Saudi Arabian cities.